I have a second similar system (same CPU/gfx/RAM) that still has the original other cards.

Ian.

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This is what I hope to turn my O350/Onyx system into - all I'm missing is my NUMALink cable (on the way), a V12 (to replace my V10), and a DM3 (I probably won't end up getting one, as I don't have much use, but...) and I've got it :p

@indyman007 - would probably be used as a Discreet system in "the real world" - there's not much else that uses a DM3 and that much power.

Pretty sure that was DM6 - the DM3 is XIO, not PCI. There was some speculation that DM3 might also be a DVE product but as far as I know only SGI ever sold XIO cards, so I doubt they ever directly sold any.

There are things I can use it for (movie conversion tasks), but neither system is for keeps. I bought them stricly as aninvestment, because the ISA interest rates are now so useless. They were expensive (thousands); I couldn't justifyspending so much on something like this for personal use, not at present. My bank savings balance would have tohave at least one extra digit on the end for that to be viable.

A US movie company is interested in one of them, perhaps later in the summer, not sure yet.

bri3d writes:> This is what I hope to turn my O350/Onyx system into - ...

Is it still a dual-1GHz V10 atm?

> replace my V10), and a DM3 (I probably won't end up getting one, as I don't have much use, but...) and I've got it :p

I got one from Harry, for the quad-700 system I have. He probably has more.

> @indyman007 - would probably be used as a Discreet system in "the real world" - there's not much else that uses> a DM3 and that much power.

Correct, they were all Smoke systems. The unit pictured at the start of this thread still has a sticker on the front panel,behind the front flap, that says, "SMOKE2". Naturally, the system disks were wiped though. Each system came witheither an original IR36 or IR73 Stone FC array, ie. a 15-bay FC chassis filled with either 36GB or 73GB FC drivescontaining proper Discreet firmware.

sgtprobe writes:> Wow, Nice system Ian.

Thanks!

I've added a few benchmark results for the system, but have a few more to do.

hamei writes:> Ian, since you pulled the serial card, could you look and see what> UART's it has ? Maybe 16550's ?

Btw, does anyone know if Blender 2.48 can do renders using networked systems? If so, is it easy to setup? I waswondering how hard it would be to run my benchmark using all three Tezros, see what happens.

hamei wrote:Ian, since you pulled the serial card, could you look and see what UART's it has ? Maybe 16550's ?

Nothing that mundane

I believe there's an IOC3 on it, the IO chip from the IO6 of an O2k. The keyboard/mouse/network ports aren't wired. Is that wasteful? You betcha ... But at least they didn't need to write a new driver.

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I believe there's an IOC3 on it, the IO chip from the IO6 of an O2k. The keyboard/mouse/network ports aren't wired. Is that wasteful? You betcha ... But at least they didn't need to write a new driver.

It fits into the same type of double-socket that the V12 is plugged into (definitely XIO, or rather XIO2 I suppose) Thus, with abit of metal hacking of the rear chassis plate, could one fit two V12s into a Tezro tower unit? This would mean no DM3 though.

Wild thought: if one knew how, maybe the spare XIO port could be linked to the same port in a different Tezro, make an 8-CPUsystem. Hmm, probably not.

Funny thing - before Tezro launched, some of the comments I heard from SGI people led me to infer that the system wouldindeed be linkable in this way, but alas that didn't happen. Pity, would've been cool.

mapesdhs wrote:Funny thing - before Tezro launched, some of the comments I heard from SGI people led me to infer that the system would indeed be linkable in this way, but alas that didn't happen. Pity, would've been cool.

I believe it did happen - if you purchased a Tezro rack system you could link <at least> two.

Though interestingly enough, the rear view illustration in the Tezro Rack Mounted Workstation User's Guide doesn't label the XIO port , or specifically mention it in the accompanying text.